Drawing, Design for a Blanket

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Archives of American Art, New York, N.Y. as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

Kenwood Mills sold Liebes-designed blankets to department stores and other retail outlets, but also to hotels and hospitals. Like many Liebes-designed products, they had to be attractive, affordable, durable, and marketable to customers with wide-ranging needs. Despite these challenges, one Vogue editor wrote, "We feel this is a brand-new idea in a field for which it might have seemed impossible to have new ideas."

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.